I. Introduction

• •the second Red Scare



• •demagogue or crusader?

II. McCarthy's career

• •Youth



• •World War II



• •U.S. Senator (1946-1957)
• •1946 campaign
• •speech at Wheeling, WV (Feb. 9, 1950)
• •Chairman of Senate Committee on Government Operations and of Subcommittee on Investigations (1952-1954)
• •"McCarthyism"
• •McCarthy, the Army, and President Eisenhower (1954)
• •censure (Dec. 1954)



• •the origins of McCarthyism

III. Conclusion

• •What if McCarthy was right?



• •But does it matter?



• •the problem of the demagogue in a democracy